Re: superpage plans - FreeBSD

This is a discussion on Re: superpage plans - FreeBSD ; On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:16:25 +0100
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> what performance impact do you estimate for "older" processors? I know
> very little about superpages, so I assume that, e.g., earlier Pentiums
> don't support it? Where do ...

Re: superpage plans

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:16:25 +0100
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> what performance impact do you estimate for "older" processors? I know
> very little about superpages, so I assume that, e.g., earlier Pentiums
> don't support it? Where do you think the break off point lies?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if superpages means using 4 MB TLB pages,
then it is quite old (~1993) and every pentium (i586 or newer) should support
it.